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From your link: “Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors and annual grants from the publicly-fun
by anonuser123456 4y ago
From your link:
“Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors and annual grants from the publicly-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
“Although NPR receives only 1% of its direct funding from the federal government,[5] member stations (which pay dues amounting to approximately one third of NPR's revenue), tend to receive far larger portions of their budgets from the federal (through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) and state governments.”
“NPR states it is not state-run media, and further states it operates independently of the U.S. government;[5] nonetheless, NPR indicates that federal funding is essential to NPR and that the loss of federal funding would weaken the network.”
- moose_man 4y agoThe levels separating direct government funding from NPR pile up. They get membership dues from radio stations that receive public money I mean, all money comes from the Federal Reserve. Are we all state affiliated or do the levels it passes through to get to us make us independent? Is SpaceX state affiliated because of the money it gets from government contracts?
- anonuser123456 4y agoSpaceX is obviously state affiliated. They provide military and intelligence services to the U.S. government. They receive huge contracts from various state agencies. Revenue streams matter because they have the ability to influence. Why is this controversial?